A Senate panel, after two years of work, assailed “deceptive practices” and called for changes to regulatory and industry practices.

Naming Culprits in the Financial Crisis

BlackBerry is diving into a market flooded with tablets, introducing the PlayBook, overflowing with borrowed ideas.

A BlackBerry Tablet, but Where Are the Apps?

Young lawmakers in Iraq are running up against an ossified political elite still dominated by exiles.

Iraqi Youths’ Political Rise Is Stunted by Elites

The United States and its allies want other developing nations to ask China to alter its economic policies.

China Policy Main Topic for the G-20

Punchdrunk, a British site-specific theater company, has taken over three abandoned warehouses to enact the sorry sights of the murderous Macbeths’ career in a movable orgy titled “Sleep No More.”

Shakespeare Slept Here, Albeit Fitfully

As a nuclear disaster unfolds in distant Japan, a growing number of Indian scientists, academics and others have expressed concern about plans for a coastal nuclear plant.

Resistance to Jaitapur Nuclear Plant Grows in India

Several years after the financial crisis, no senior executives of major financial institutions have been charged, and a collective government effort has not emerged.

In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures

The festival’s selections, however quirky, offer crucial exposure for serious independent filmmakers.

As Tribeca Festival Turns 10, Grumbling Subsides

With “Sweeney Todd” and others, the director of the venerable theater aims to lure French audiences with musicals they may not have heard of.

Théâtre du Châtelet Aims to Bring Broadway to Paris

The woman in a trial against two police officers charged with rape took the stand to recount what she could.

At Trial, Accuser Recalls, in Pieces, Night of Rape

Amid a real estate boom, men are finding themselves lovelorn as women hold out for a mate with property.

For Many Chinese Men, No Deed Means No Dates

David Foster Wallace’s coherent, if uncompleted, posthumous novel is a portrayal of our age unfolding on an epic scale: a grand parable of postindustrial culture or “late capitalism,” set in the innards of the Internal Revenue Service.

David Foster Wallace: The Last Audit

The House and Senate passed the compromise legislation to finance the federal government, with 59 House Republicans breaking ranks to vote against the deal.

Congress Passes Budget Bill, but Some in G.O.P. Balk

An analysis implies that modern language originated only once, in southern Africa, a surprising finding.

Phonetic Clues Hint Language Is Africa-Born

A year into Britain’s controversial austerity plan, retail sales have had the sharpest monthly plunge in 15 years and real household income is expected to fall 2 percent this year.

Pain of British Fiscal Cuts Could Inform U.S. Debate

It is hard to see how the euro zone can be undone, but it is even harder to see how it will prosper.

Resentment Is Rising In Euro Zone

Riccardo Muti prepares “Otello” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

More Drama for an Opera, Not All of It From the Singers

A small core of American groups played a bigger role in promoting democracy in Arab states than was previously known.

U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings

The short-term rental business may be affected in unforeseen ways by a new state law that will prohibit rentals of less than 30 days in most apartment buildings.

Hey, Short- Timer, Park It Here

Corrections appearing in print on April 14, 2011.

Corrections

Some of the same risks taken with collateralized debt obligations, or C.D.O.’s, that led to the financial crisis are being repeated with innovative exchange-traded funds.

Courting Disaster the E.T.F. Way

Kesha’s show at the Roseland Ballroom was both sharp and completely naïve, crass and sort of innocent, a sparkly anti-performance. It knew what it was up to.

Who Needs a Beach When Life’s a Goof?

“The Mountaintop,” Katori Hall’s play about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will make it to Broadway this fall.

‘The Mountaintop’ Will Come to Broadway

Data indicates some banks may be flirting with temptation.

Risky Short-Term Debt Is Creeping Back

Both big and small states benefit from the advertising industry, according to a study commissioned by advertising trade groups.

Study Measures Ad Industry’s Impact on State Economies

Jean Gratton was the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Mont-Laurier, Canada.

April 14, 2011

Headlines from April 14, 2011

Naming Culprits in the Financial Crisis

A BlackBerry Tablet, but Where Are the Apps?

Iraqi Youths’ Political Rise Is Stunted by Elites

China Policy Main Topic for the G-20

Shakespeare Slept Here, Albeit Fitfully

Billboard 200

Femme Fatale

Rolling Papers

21

F.A.M.E.

Songs For Japan

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for April 14, 2011